To read Lim’s official bio, see “Bio”. 

In her current life, Merlyna Lim is/does:

• a human, a woman.
• love music. play piano & guitar.
• a singer & arranger.
• a compulsive doodler. an artist.
• sew her own dresses, skirts, and tops.
• solve math problems for fun.
• (no longer) play bridge and wordle.
• enjoy cooking and be cooked for.
• have a phd, a Dr who can’t cure :-).
• a professor.
• a research chair. canada research chair, to be exact.
• have a “big” heart, quite literally.
• kinda royal.
• love tofu & tempeh.
• a coffee drinker, especially (all variants of) espresso.
• on wikipedia.
• do not laugh easily but love to make people laugh – resep heureuy :-).
• continue to be Lady Dayeuh(kolot) :-).

In her previous life(s), Merlyna Lim was:

• an award-winning designer and architect.
• a piano/keyboard accompanist. a violinist. a harmonica player.
• a lead singer in multiple bands. an a cappella singer. a choir singer, conductor and coach.
• a high-school physics teacher. a math tutor. an art teacher.
• a math whiz and nerd. a math competition winner.
• a chest player. addicted to playing in-person bridge.
• a 2D and 3D rendering artist — hand-drawing and digital.
• a dough kneader. a shop attendant. a kite-string threader.

Now, Merlyna Lim:

lives in mucho-frio-yet-lovely Ottawa, with her award-winning musician inamorato, accompanied by a black Steinway Vertegrand,  a sitar, a banjo, a mandolin, a ukulele, a trumpet, violins, harmonicas, guitars, dozens of paintings and plants, and thousands of books.